Ghalibaf pushes back on critics of Switzerland talks

Iranian Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has defended his participation in talks with US officials in Switzerland, arguing that diplomacy helped prevent further bloodshed in Lebanon.

"I saw on a state TV program that they said Mehrabad Airport should have been closed so the negotiating team could not travel to Switzerland," he wrote on X.

"If we had not gone to Switzerland, more Muslim and Shiite blood would have been shed in Lebanon every moment."

The remarks appear to be one of Ghalibaf's clearest public defenses of the talks since returning from Switzerland.